Goal🎯 setting is very common with some many people👱🏻‍♀️👩🏻‍🦰👩🏻👧🏽👧🏾.

Failures📉 from attaining set goals is also very common with people👱🏻‍♀️👩🏻‍🦰👩🏻👧🏽👧🏾, thus leading so many people from setting goals🎯.

These failures are rooted in misconception of goal setting or for better words wrong definition of a goal.

The following are the characteristics📋 of a goal which will help to form the definition of a goal.

  • Goal must be 100% within your control🎮
  • Goal must be clear✅ and unambiguous
  • Goals should be measurable⚖️
  • Goals should be achievable🏆
  • Goals should be relevant🔑
  • Goals must be time-bound⏳

A goal is a clearly defined action not an outcome or result that an individual, group or organization intentionally aims to achieve within a specific period of time.

Why action and not an outcome or result - Actions are 100% 💯within your control while outcome or result are not 100% within your control. The goal is not the outcome but to do the amount of work👩🏻‍💻📓✍🏻💡 which would make it unreasonable for the outcome or result not to happen.

This is why so many fail📉from attaining their goals.

Example:

  • Goal: To study 4 hours daily for my AZ-104 Exam in the next 3 months
  • Outcome: To pass my AZ-104 Exam📝📚🙆🏻‍♀️🎓
  • Actions: Committing 4 hours daily to study for my AZ-104 Exam
  • Timing: 4 hours daily excluding weekend for 3 months
    • 4 hours in a day
    • 5 days in a week
    • 4 weeks in a month
    • 3 months
    • 4 * 5 * 4 * 3 equals 240 hours⏰ In 3 months📅, I would have done 240 hours of study toward my AZ-104 Exam which would make it unreasonable for the outcome or result not to happen.

Even if the outcome was not successful🚫, you will have a sense of accomplishment seeing your trackable activities and learning how to stick to a schedule⌯⌲🗓️⋆｡˚.